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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Smith

Native Place

Kirgarff? [Kingariff, Antrim]

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

William & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: housemaid, reads, relations in colony, sister Mary Gallagher, New England; to Moreton Bay; empl. Captain Collins at Logan as house servant, £14, 3 months; married 1) Owen McGrath in Brisbane RC 24 Dec 1849 - he was mailman between Brisbane, Ipswich & Drayton; 2 children; Owen died of heart attack on 18 Feb 1853 while splitting timber; married 2) Thomas William Charington at Drayton, Darling Downs 15 Jun 1854; 5 children; she died 16 Jul 1894 at Petrie Tce, Brisbane; buried Toowong.

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